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Art & Culture

Blood Portrait

A Pakistani artist drew his own blood, half a litre of it, to paint this portrait. But the wait for a visa is discolouring it

The Real Culture Vultures

There is a set of serial gatecrashers who live off Delhi’s vibrant cultural life. Some of them carry cards saying ‘freelance journalist and LIC agent’

Godspeed, Uncle Pai!

A comforting word after a silly answer, measuring out school with 12 years of Amar Chitra Katha, and a letter too late

California Dreaming

Lady Gaga speaking to me after she hatched out of an egg, Jay Leno calling me pretty, and other Grammy tales from LA

The Constant Travellers

For forty years, Footsbarn has been travelling the world, performing. They live in homes-on-wheels as an itinerant little community. Now they’re pitching tent in India

Inside the Mind of Vishal Bhardwaj

Filmmaker Abhishek Chaubey, who has worked with the director of 7 Khoon Maaf on various projects since 2002, on the quirks and passions that attend his talent

Silk in Her Voice

Darlings, Usha Uthup’s back with Saat Khoon Maaf. And how!

The Shape of Emptiness

Writer Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s most ambitious work captures a life in transition, and in a new language too

Makes You C-C-C-Cringe

The ever-keen Shah Rukh Khan takes on yet another international reality TV franchise and makes us gag with his decidedly crude jokes

Updating the Natraj Diaries

At the First Indian Annual Comic Con, compulsive doodlers will get to meet published graphic artists

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